Dressmaker

Beautiful templating

I wanted to do really simple application templating, and found Rubigen and Thor were both tied to a command-line interface paradigm, whereas I really just wanted to execute this stuff programmatically. I also wanted application templates to be entirely self-contained.

Usage

Inside your application

  require 'dressmaker'

  maker = Dressmaker.new('my-template', 'my-source')
  maker.generate

And you’re done! If you need to pass in options at generate time, simply pass generate some options.

  maker.generate(:database => 'mysql')

Inside the template directory is a file, called Pattern. Here is a typical Pattern:

  desc "make executable"
  directory.matches('/bin') do |dir|
    dir.all { |f|
      f.make_executable!
    }
  end

This would make everything inside bin executable.

Caution!

Everything here is subject to change. This is just an egg of an idea.